DOD CCRP announces new publications for 2006

Press Release Summary = For 2006, the CCRP has produced three new titles, all ofwhich are available for download in PDF format from the CCRP website(www.dodccrp.org) for free.

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The U.S. Department of Defense's Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)(www.dodccrp.org) is an active publisher of works on current defense theories andtopics, including Network Centric Warfare, experimentation, effects basedapproaches, coalition peace operations, power to the edge, complexity theory, andorganizational agility. CCRP publications are distributed around the world and havebeen used as classroom texts for many years.

For 2006, the CCRP has produced three new titles, all of which are available fordownload in PDF format from the CCRP website (www.dodccrp.org) for free. The firsttitle is currently available in paperback, and the second two titles will beavailable in paperback by the end of this year.

Planned publications for 2007 include books on planning, complexity, systems ofsystems, and experimentation.

Fourteen titles are currently available in paperback, which may be ordered from thewebsite free of charge (shipping fees to addresses outside North America will becharged; see the website for more details).

In addition to books, the CCRP website also offers thousands of technical paperspresented at the ICCRTS conferences held each year.

UNDERSTANDING COMMAND AND CONTROL David S. Alberts and Richard E. Hayes (CCRP, 2006)

Understanding Command and Control is the first in a new series of CCRP Publicationsthat will explore the future of Command and Control. This book begins at thebeginning: focusing on the problem(s) Command and Control was designed (and hasevolved) to solve. It is only by changing the focus from what Command and Control isto why Command and Control is that we will place ourselves in a position to move on.

This second CCRP publication on effects-based approaches to operations begins with adetailed description of the problem that effects-based approaches are thought toaddress and explains why effects-based approaches are so important to understand andto be able to do. Ed Smith recounts his experiences as a naval officer and thecomplex problems he encountered that convinced him of the need for effects-basedapproaches and the improved infostructure needed to support them. This book willmake effects-based approaches more understandable to many and thus will hasten theday when we will be better able to conduct effects-based operations, a capabilitymuch needed in our century.

THE LOGIC OF WARFIGHTING EXPERIMENTSRichard A. Kass (CCRP, 2006)

Experimentation has proven itself in science and technology, yielding dramaticadvances. Can we apply the same experiment methods to the military transformationprocess? Can the same experiment methods achieve similar advances in militaryeffectiveness? The thesis of this book is that robust experimentation methods fromthe sciences can be adapted and applied to military experimentation and will providethe foundation for continual advancement in military effectiveness.

For more information visit www.dodccrp.org or contact publications@dodccrp.org.